{"id":1856558,"date":"2026-03-31T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1856558"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:31:00","slug":"youre-better-than-this-why-young-men-are-quitting-porn-in-droves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1856558","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You&#8217;re better than this&#8221;: why young men are quitting porn in droves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-0-2500-1666\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442783.jpeg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/life-culture\/article\/70018\/1\/quitting-porn-addiction-self-improvement-young-men-quittr-app\" data-article-id=\"70018\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-landscape-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.5\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DON JON\" class=\"img\" height=\"1667\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1400\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442783.jpeg\" width=\"2500\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Voltage Pictures<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-03-31T10:31:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"31 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"31\">31,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - life-culture\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/life-culture\">Life &amp; Culture<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/life-culture\">Life &amp; Culture<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>&#8220;You&#8217;re better than this&#8221;: why young men are quitting porn <span class=\"nowrap\">in droves<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>The founders of Quittr discuss their new porn addiction recovery app, which offers men the promise of radically transforming <span class=\"nowrap\">their lives<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-03-31T10:31:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"31 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"31\">31,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-03-31T10:31:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"31 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"31\">31,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/laurapitcher\">Laura Pitcher<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>20-year-old Alex Slater says he wants to make the world a better place. No, not by achieving world peace or ending hunger, but by getting the number of men who watch porn down to zero. \u201cI think helping a hundred million men quit porn would be awesome,\u201d he tells Dazed on a call from Miami. \u201cI don\u2019t think it has any benefit at all to society.\u201d To achieve this mission, Slater launched a porn addiction recovery app called <a href=\"https:\/\/quittrapp.com\/\">Quittr<\/a>, with several other young male co-founders, in August 2024. Now, he\u2019s the CEO of the app he calls an \u201covernight success\u201d, which he says has been downloaded nearly two million times. \u201cDecember, January and February have been our biggest months in terms of subscriber growth, and I plan for it to jump way more in the coming months,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So, why are so many young men hoping to quit porn? Like a lot of apps, the idea for Quittr came from the young founders\u2019 own experience, and Slater\u2019s interest in self-improvement practices. In 2021, he started working on his \u201cdiscipline\u201d by eating clean, scrolling less and working out. Cutting back on watching porn was just one part of his self-improvement journey, but he says it was integral to achieving his other goals. \u201cAnyone who\u2019s jerked off will tell you that, for the rest of the day, they will be low energy because, biologically, the mind thinks they\u2019ve completed the ultimate goal of reproduction,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you screw around with that system too much, you won\u2019t get anything done.\u201d As Quittr\u2019s downloads would suggest, there are hundreds of thousands of young men who agree.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Quittr\u2019s website, the app is positioned as a tool to help men \u201cfeel alive again\u201d. \u201cMillions of men are isolated, addicted, and quietly struggling \u2013 and no one is speaking to them honestly,\u201d it reads. \u201cPorn isn\u2019t the real problem. It&#8217;s a symptom of a deeper crisis of disconnection, suppressed emotion, and shame. We built QUITTR to break that cycle.\u201d To help people quit porn, the app has an array of what it calls \u201cexpert-backed porn addiction therapy tools\u201d. One of these is a panic button that tells you, \u201cYou\u2019re better than this. Look at yourself\u201d, when you feel the urge. There\u2019s also a block for trigger sites, an AI support chatbot to guide you through urges, a dashboard to monitor your porn-free streaks and porn addiction support groups, for \u201cstrength and accountability\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Despite using terms like \u201cneuroscience\u201c and \u201cexperts\u201c, Slater says he came up with Quittr\u2019s features himself to see what stuck. When I asked what specific research or studies they were drawing these supposedly addiction-healing techniques from, he said they\u2019re still working on some of the \u201clegitimising stuff\u201c. \u201cIt\u2019s run by 20-year-olds who did this for fun before it started ramping up,\u201d he says. \u201cWe got excited and kept expanding, but there were a lot of things we did wrong.\u201d This includes a recent data breach that exposed the masturbation habits of thousands of its users, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/viral-quittr-porn-addiction-app-exposed-the-masturbation-habits-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-users\/\">a report by 404 Media<\/a>. To that, Slater says he takes data security \u201cvery seriously\u201d. \u201cWe recently identified and addressed a potential issue, engaged a security review, and implemented additional safeguards,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of the things Quittr is clearly doing effectively is online engagement. They work with male influencers across all spaces to spread the anti-porn message \u2013 from Christian life coaches who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUaDbKPDpFE\/\"><span>talk about lust being a \u201csin\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> to those who make videos about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVi-VlBCOnc\/\"><span>being stronger at the gym after quitting porn<\/span><\/a><span>. And it\u2019s clear when speaking to Slater that it doesn\u2019t matter if Quittr\u2019s users are motivated by self-improvement or religion; he just thinks it\u2019s important they stop watching porn. \u201cSome marketing efforts work better towards Christians, who take God more seriously than pure self-improvement,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I want to expand: to target Muslim men, dads with families and people with erectile dysfunction.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cAnyone who\u2019s jerked off will tell you that, for the rest of the day, they will be low energy because biologically the mind thinks they\u2019ve completed the ultimate goal of reproduction. If you screw around with that system too much, you won\u2019t get anything done\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>One of Quittr\u2019s several creators is Tom, a 24-year-old in Indianapolis who goes by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/popcornwithtom\/\"><span>@popcornwithtom<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0online. He promotes Quittr in between videos on \u201chigh-testosterone board games\u201d and \u201cultra-masculine ways to die\u201d. \u201cPorn is more accessible and normalised than any other drug you can get addicted to in a society,\u201d he tells me. \u201cI think people are starting to realise the effect it has on your relationships and how you can connect with women.\u201d After the internet opened the door for essentially unbridled porn access, apps like Quittr indicate that young men are hoping to take matters into their own hands (sorry for the pun) and block their way out of algorithmic dopamine loops. For Tom, it was meeting his girlfriend that inspired him to cut porn out of his life completely.\u00a0 \u201cAfterwards, I really noticed a difference in how we connected,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Porn as an addiction has been a hotly contested topic for years. Currently, pornography addiction is not a diagnosable condition, although <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/mental-health-nerd\/202503\/the-impact-of-problematic-pornography-use-in-men\"><span>studies indicate that approximately 70 per cent of men<\/span><\/a><span> watch porn at least monthly. There are reports stating that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC11335322\/\"><span>porn may promote \u201csexual aggression\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> or that problematic pornography consumption can lead to higher rates of relationship dissatisfaction and sexual dysfunction, but no general agreement on what\u2019s considered a \u201cproblematic\u201d level of watching porn. Also, there\u2019s a study showing that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/women-who-stray\/201808\/science-stopped-believing-in-porn-addiction-you-should-too#:~:text=In%20one%20study%20by%20Perry,it%20is%20bad%20is%20harmful.\"><span>pornography use predicted depression over a period of six years<\/span><\/a><span>, but it was only in men who disapproved of porn use.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>While the concept of young men banding together to quit porn may be music to the ears of many girlfriends and pastors alike, the idea that you won\u2019t perform as well at the gym if you masturbate isn\u2019t exactly sex-positive. It\u2019s also happening against the backdrop of the current cultural conservative swing, with global studies showing young men and boys in particular have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/05\/gen-z-men-baby-boomers-wives-should-obey-husbands#:~:text=Gender-,Gen%20Z%20males%20twice%20as%20likely%20as%20baby,believe%20wives%20should%20obey%20husbands&amp;text=Almost%20a%20third%20of%20generation,gender%20roles%20than%20older%20generations.\"><span>developed more traditional views about gender roles than older generations<\/span><\/a><span> (such as the belief that wives should obey their husbands). Between the \u201cgooning\u201d communities bonding over excessive masturbation and the anti-porn creators who toggle between evangelical purity rhetoric and looksmaxxing culture, young men are being exposed to extreme ideas around self-pleasure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For Tom, quitting porn was about aligning his actions with his faith. \u201cIt really helped with my self-confidence because I would portray this happy, extroverted dude who always tried to speak about my faith, but deep down I knew I couldn\u2019t stop this one thing that I told myself I was going to stop every single day,\u201d he says. \u201cI was like, \u2018If I can\u2019t keep that promise to myself, how can I keep promises to anybody else?\u2019\u201d Now, post-porn, he says he can \u201cpreach confidently\u201d when trying to inspire young men to follow in his footsteps. His mostly young male audience is listening; he says his DMs are flooded with others who swear quitting porn changed their lives. \u201cOnce I was able to conquer pornography, that translated into all the other goals I was trying to achieve,\u201d says Tom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Slater also speaks a lot about discipline, and about making sure your actions aren\u2019t bent toward \u201cthe will of the mind\u201d. \u201cHard times create strong men,\u201d he says. But his abstinent approach hasn&#8217;t entailed giving up sex completely \u2013 as some of the more puritanical creators do. For him, it\u2019s really all about porn. He believes that it\u2019s the accessibility of porn on the internet that\u2019s impacting men\u2019s chances of finding a partner. \u201cIt\u2019s screwing up their minds,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you release and you have no one to share that moment with, you actually feel more lonely.\u201d Instead, he suggests hitting Quittr\u2019s panic button \u2013 after which, your phone will start vibrating. When asked what happens after that, Slater replies: \u201cYou snap out of it\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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Get The Drop<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta-row\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"confirmation\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"confirmation-title\">Thank you. You have been subscribed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>20-year-old Alex Slater says he wants to make the world a better place. No, not by achieving world peace or ending hunger, but by getting the number of men who watch porn down to zero. \u201cI think helping a hundred million men quit porn would be awesome,\u201d he tells Dazed on a call from Miami. \u201cI don\u2019t think it has any benefit at all to society.\u201d To achieve this mission, Slater launched a porn addiction recovery app called <a href=\"https:\/\/quittrapp.com\/\">Quittr<\/a>, with several other young male co-founders, in August 2024. Now, he\u2019s the CEO of the app he calls an \u201covernight success\u201d, which he says has been downloaded nearly two million times. \u201cDecember, January and February have been our biggest months in terms of subscriber growth, and I plan for it to jump way more in the coming months,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So, why are so many young men hoping to quit porn? Like a lot of apps, the idea for Quittr came from the young founders\u2019 own experience, and Slater\u2019s interest in self-improvement practices. In 2021, he started working on his \u201cdiscipline\u201d by eating clean, scrolling less and working out. Cutting back on watching porn was just one part of his self-improvement journey, but he says it was integral to achieving his other goals. \u201cAnyone who\u2019s jerked off will tell you that, for the rest of the day, they will be low energy because, biologically, the mind thinks they\u2019ve completed the ultimate goal of reproduction,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you screw around with that system too much, you won\u2019t get anything done.\u201d As Quittr\u2019s downloads would suggest, there are hundreds of thousands of young men who agree.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Quittr\u2019s website, the app is positioned as a tool to help men \u201cfeel alive again\u201d. \u201cMillions of men are isolated, addicted, and quietly struggling \u2013 and no one is speaking to them honestly,\u201d it reads. \u201cPorn isn\u2019t the real problem. It&#8217;s a symptom of a deeper crisis of disconnection, suppressed emotion, and shame. We built QUITTR to break that cycle.\u201d To help people quit porn, the app has an array of what it calls \u201cexpert-backed porn addiction therapy tools\u201d. One of these is a panic button that tells you, \u201cYou\u2019re better than this. Look at yourself\u201d, when you feel the urge. There\u2019s also a block for trigger sites, an AI support chatbot to guide you through urges, a dashboard to monitor your porn-free streaks and porn addiction support groups, for \u201cstrength and accountability\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Despite using terms like \u201cneuroscience\u201c and \u201cexperts\u201c, Slater says he came up with Quittr\u2019s features himself to see what stuck. When I asked what specific research or studies they were drawing these supposedly addiction-healing techniques from, he said they\u2019re still working on some of the \u201clegitimising stuff\u201c. \u201cIt\u2019s run by 20-year-olds who did this for fun before it started ramping up,\u201d he says. \u201cWe got excited and kept expanding, but there were a lot of things we did wrong.\u201d This includes a recent data breach that exposed the masturbation habits of thousands of its users, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/viral-quittr-porn-addiction-app-exposed-the-masturbation-habits-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-users\/\">a report by 404 Media<\/a>. To that, Slater says he takes data security \u201cvery seriously\u201d. \u201cWe recently identified and addressed a potential issue, engaged a security review, and implemented additional safeguards,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of the things Quittr is clearly doing effectively is online engagement. They work with male influencers across all spaces to spread the anti-porn message \u2013 from Christian life coaches who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUaDbKPDpFE\/\"><span>talk about lust being a \u201csin\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> to those who make videos about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVi-VlBCOnc\/\"><span>being stronger at the gym after quitting porn<\/span><\/a><span>. And it\u2019s clear when speaking to Slater that it doesn\u2019t matter if Quittr\u2019s users are motivated by self-improvement or religion; he just thinks it\u2019s important they stop watching porn. \u201cSome marketing efforts work better towards Christians, who take God more seriously than pure self-improvement,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I want to expand: to target Muslim men, dads with families and people with erectile dysfunction.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cAnyone who\u2019s jerked off will tell you that, for the rest of the day, they will be low energy because biologically the mind thinks they\u2019ve completed the ultimate goal of reproduction. If you screw around with that system too much, you won\u2019t get anything done\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>One of Quittr\u2019s several creators is Tom, a 24-year-old in Indianapolis who goes by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/popcornwithtom\/\"><span>@popcornwithtom<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0online. He promotes Quittr in between videos on \u201chigh-testosterone board games\u201d and \u201cultra-masculine ways to die\u201d. \u201cPorn is more accessible and normalised than any other drug you can get addicted to in a society,\u201d he tells me. \u201cI think people are starting to realise the effect it has on your relationships and how you can connect with women.\u201d After the internet opened the door for essentially unbridled porn access, apps like Quittr indicate that young men are hoping to take matters into their own hands (sorry for the pun) and block their way out of algorithmic dopamine loops. For Tom, it was meeting his girlfriend that inspired him to cut porn out of his life completely.\u00a0 \u201cAfterwards, I really noticed a difference in how we connected,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Porn as an addiction has been a hotly contested topic for years. Currently, pornography addiction is not a diagnosable condition, although <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/mental-health-nerd\/202503\/the-impact-of-problematic-pornography-use-in-men\"><span>studies indicate that approximately 70 per cent of men<\/span><\/a><span> watch porn at least monthly. There are reports stating that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC11335322\/\"><span>porn may promote \u201csexual aggression\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> or that problematic pornography consumption can lead to higher rates of relationship dissatisfaction and sexual dysfunction, but no general agreement on what\u2019s considered a \u201cproblematic\u201d level of watching porn. Also, there\u2019s a study showing that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/women-who-stray\/201808\/science-stopped-believing-in-porn-addiction-you-should-too#:~:text=In%20one%20study%20by%20Perry,it%20is%20bad%20is%20harmful.\"><span>pornography use predicted depression over a period of six years<\/span><\/a><span>, but it was only in men who disapproved of porn use.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>While the concept of young men banding together to quit porn may be music to the ears of many girlfriends and pastors alike, the idea that you won\u2019t perform as well at the gym if you masturbate isn\u2019t exactly sex-positive. It\u2019s also happening against the backdrop of the current cultural conservative swing, with global studies showing young men and boys in particular have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/05\/gen-z-men-baby-boomers-wives-should-obey-husbands#:~:text=Gender-,Gen%20Z%20males%20twice%20as%20likely%20as%20baby,believe%20wives%20should%20obey%20husbands&amp;text=Almost%20a%20third%20of%20generation,gender%20roles%20than%20older%20generations.\"><span>developed more traditional views about gender roles than older generations<\/span><\/a><span> (such as the belief that wives should obey their husbands). Between the \u201cgooning\u201d communities bonding over excessive masturbation and the anti-porn creators who toggle between evangelical purity rhetoric and looksmaxxing culture, young men are being exposed to extreme ideas around self-pleasure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For Tom, quitting porn was about aligning his actions with his faith. \u201cIt really helped with my self-confidence because I would portray this happy, extroverted dude who always tried to speak about my faith, but deep down I knew I couldn\u2019t stop this one thing that I told myself I was going to stop every single day,\u201d he says. \u201cI was like, \u2018If I can\u2019t keep that promise to myself, how can I keep promises to anybody else?\u2019\u201d Now, post-porn, he says he can \u201cpreach confidently\u201d when trying to inspire young men to follow in his footsteps. His mostly young male audience is listening; he says his DMs are flooded with others who swear quitting porn changed their lives. \u201cOnce I was able to conquer pornography, that translated into all the other goals I was trying to achieve,\u201d says Tom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Slater also speaks a lot about discipline, and about making sure your actions aren\u2019t bent toward \u201cthe will of the mind\u201d. \u201cHard times create strong men,\u201d he says. But his abstinent approach hasn&#8217;t entailed giving up sex completely \u2013 as some of the more puritanical creators do. For him, it\u2019s really all about porn. He believes that it\u2019s the accessibility of porn on the internet that\u2019s impacting men\u2019s chances of finding a partner. \u201cIt\u2019s screwing up their minds,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you release and you have no one to share that moment with, you actually feel more lonely.\u201d Instead, he suggests hitting Quittr\u2019s panic button \u2013 after which, your phone will start vibrating. When asked what happens after that, Slater replies: \u201cYou snap out of it\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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